Video/Audio Skip

[Guest]

I imported a video of a band playing from my DV camcorder to WMM. And when I
play the video clip (44 seconds) of the collection, I see and hear that the
video and audio skip once in a while. It's more noticeable with music.
Can you help to fix that ?

 

[Graham Hughes]

The preview is just that, a low quality preview, it runs smaller than full
size physically and at 15 frames per second, so missing every other frame.
It will also skip more if it needs to so that it can play it all in real
time. The lower the pc specs and the higher the complexity of the movie the
more evident it will be.
To test if it is all ok, save it back to the minidv tape and play out on
your tv.
If all is well, then there isn't a problem, if it skips here, then check out
this page.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/OptimiseMyPcForVideo.htm

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Guest]

When I captured from video device, I chose the video setting "best quality
for playback on my computer", not DV-AVI because it takes too much space.
Do you mean that when the movie will be finished and saved with the actual
video setting, the skips will disappear ?
This video clip was part of a capture of about 40 minutes of video.
I captured again only the 44 seconds video clip alone and the quality is
good, I don't know if it's a clue.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Your hard drive is critical to having a good captured file with no skips....
freeing up hard drive space, defragging, and turning off other apps during
the capture are key things toward a good capture.

If that's not enough, capture with the WinDV utility, which uses a bigger
buffer... there's a link on the Setup > Other Software page of my site, in
the section of Utilities.
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[Al Stu]

Jacques,

Does the captured file skip when played in WMP? Or just in WMM?

Capture as DV-AVI and play back captured file with WMP to if it still skips.
44 seconds is only few hundred meg, if you don't have space for that then
your disk is too full and needs more space and defragging.

What are your system specs. CPU speed and type, RAM, Disk RPM and free
space, type of connection used for capturing (firewire, USB)? This could
give vital clues.

If Centrino processor, set the power scheme to "Always On" while using WMM.

 

[Guest]

I saved it back to the minidv tape and it played out well on TV.
Question : should I run "Idle processing" before or after "EndItAll" ?

 

[Guest]

The captured file skip in WMP and WMM.
I captured as DV-A

 

[Guest]

The captured file skips when played in WMP and in WMM.
If I capture it as DV-AVI, the captured file don't skip with WMP.
There is 13 GB free space on my partition.
I have a Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, 5400 RPM and I used firewire.

Jacques

 

[Al Stu]

The real solution is to capture in DV-AVI, but if you insist on one of the
lossy wmv formats then try defragging the disk drive and set the power
scheme to "Always On" (maximum performance) while using
Windows Movie Maker.

Speed step hinders Windows Movie Maker performance.

 

[Graham Hughes]

before

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com